Data Warehousing

A Missouri Hospital Association representative says that closed hospitals are listed as not reporting COVID-19 patient data for that state, potentially skewing totals.

The public health, research, medical, science and legal organizations all voiced concerns about data availability and transparency under the new process, which instructs hospitals to bypass the CDC and report directly to HHS.

 The University of California COVID Research Data Set comprises more than 640 million data points from electronic health records, and helps inform approaches to new treatments.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield says the controversial new process, which calls on hospitals to send capacity and utilization data via the HHS Protect system, was made with CDC support.

With multi-cloud now the rule rather the exception, the tool can help healthcare organizations more easily access and analyze data from across their disparate CSPs.

Also, The Royal Marsden, in the UK, launches AI virtual agent to support key workers post lockdown.

A new JAMIA study suggests it's possible to protect sensitive patient data while developing models to ultimately optimize care.

The new preview feature can associate words or phrases in unstructured text with semantic entities, such as symptom, diagnosis and medication dosage.

When working with big data, small inconsistencies in data entry matter. Leaving the task of cleaning up registration or demographic data to data scientists or IT staff will be expensive.

Digital health tools and investments offer great opportunity for efficiency improvements and better health outcomes in the country.